The "long memory" of ethnicity in Bolivia and some temporary oscillations / Xavier Albó -- Let the mestizos stand up and be counted / Carlos Toranzo Roca -- Oversimplifying identities : the debate over what is indigena and what is mestizo / Diego Zavaleta Reyles -- Regionalism revisited / José Luis Roca -- Oppressed or privileged regions? some historical reflections on the use of state resources / Rossana Barragán -- State-society relations in Bolivia: the strength of weakness / George Gray Molina -- The weakness of excess : the Bolivian state in an unbounded democracy / Franz Xavier Barrios Suvelza -- The development of constituent power in Bolivia / Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé -- Constitution and constitutional reform / Luis Tapia -- Gas and its importance to the Bolivian economy / Carlos Miranda -- Beyond gas : between the narrow-based and broad-based economy / Fernanda Wanderley -- Bolivia in a global setting : economic ties / Juan Antonio Morales -- The perverse effects of globalization in Bolivia / Carlos Arze Vargas -- Conclusion: Bolivia's latest "refoundation" / Laurence Whitehead
Summary
The landslide election of Evo Morales in December 2005 pointed toward a process of accelerated change in Bolivia, forging a path away from globalization and the neoliberal paradigm in favor of greater national control and state intervention. This in turn shifted the power relations of Bolivia's internal politics-beginning with greater inclusion of the indigenous population-and altered the nation's foreign relations. Unresolved Tensions engages this realignment from a variety of analytical perspectives, using the Morales election as a lens through which to reassess Bolivia's contemporary politics
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